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|1. |Name / Organisation |Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai |

|2. |Email address / Phone number |rajkumar.s@rajalakshmi.edu.in, +919381311206 |

|3. |Title of Project |Design & Development of AI tool for analysing COVID-19 condition in Chest X-ray |

|4. |Application for ICF Cluster |AI/Data Science, Karnataka |

|5. |Co-Members of the Consortium * |# |

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| | |M/S Sentinel Radiology Solutions, Chennai |

| |* Information not mandatory for the concept note stage. |Indian non-commercial organisation |

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|6. |If you do not already have agreed consortium members, please |Technical institutions having expert members with the interest to serve the |

| |indicate here the kind of partners you would like to hear |society. |

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|7. |Are you content for us to publish your concept note on our web|Yes/No |

| |platform in order to encourage potential consortium members to| |

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|8. |Funding Requested (up to £250k) |£23.7k |

|9. |Co-funding provided (if any) and source |Yes/No (If yes then provide source and amount) |

|10. |Please summarise your Innovation Challenge Fund research |Identifying, Analysing and interpreting the COVID-19 condition and infection level|

| |project in one sentence. 350 character limit |within the lung segmented region will assist the physicians to facilitate better |

| | |treatment to the infected patients and hence development of an efficient AI tool |

| | |is the need of the hour in today’s scenario. |

|11. |Please describe your project further. What problem does your pilot seek to address? Who are the potential beneficiaries and other stakeholders? |

| |What are the inputs and activities, and what are the outputs? What does success look like after 12 months of funded research? How will your |

| |solution reach the market place? 2500 character limit |

| |We have developed an AI tool to detect COVID-19 related Pneumonia, Community acquired Pneumonia, and normal condition in the given Chest X-ray. |

| |We used 12,721 X-ray images as training set and 1487 images as testing set across three categories. We used resnet50 as the backbone architecture|

| |which is pre-trained on the ImageNet dataset. We obtained an accuracy of 97% and 99% for three classes’ pre and post lung segmentation, |

| |respectively. The Precision value of 97.18%, Sensitivity/Recall -94.51% and Specificity-99.65% were obtained. We developed the tool for early |

| |detection of COVID-19 condition and the results are discussed with consultant radiologists and their suggestions were considered in the |

| |development process. In this we faced few issues like smaller number of COVID-19 images and flexibility in the standalone architecture. |

| |In the proposed funded research, a specific neural network architecture will be designed with more COVID-19 images taken at different stages of |

| |diseased condition will be used in the training process to overcome the issues faced in the prototype development. The proposed AI tool will be |

| |incorporated with the designed architecture which could be used to analyse different exclusive COVID features for any level of infection |

| |considered in the chest X-ray images. The development of AI tool is planned in such a way that it could be most required tool in the radiological|

| |domain. To conclude, the proposed funded research is aims to develop an exclusive AI tool for the radiologists to analyse and better |

| |interpretation of the test chest X-ray images with the development process planned for 12 months. |

|12. |What is ‘technological’ about your proposed solution and why |In the proposed design, Deep learning process will be used which includes |

| |might this be appropriate to the challenge areas? |convolutional neural network architecture. In the learning process, the various |

| |1000 character limit |hidden features which are not able to visualize by the radiologists are analysed |

| | |by the neural network during the training process. The selection of neural network|

| | |architecture, number of hidden layers, learning rate, epochs are contributes to |

| | |the increased efficiency of the proposed tool. The expert opinions of various |

| | |radiologists will also be considered and included in the training process. If |

| | |large number of COVID-19 images used in the training process it has more |

| | |probability of adding knowledge to the network which will in turn increase the |

| | |accuracy of the proposed system. |

|13. |Is your proposed solution a response to the impacts of |The objective of the proposed research contribution is to reduce the agony of the |

| |COVID-19, or an effort to contain the pandemic? If so, please |patients who are affected by the corona virus by way of suggesting the exact |

| |explain. |condition of the disease at the earliest using a simple radiological exposing i.e.|

| |1000 character limit |Chest X-ray AP view. Even the minute changes in the observed pattern will indicate|

| | |the level accurately before being observed in any of the tests. If the patient |

| | |assessed for COVID condition in the early days of infected will reduce the |

| | |probability of spreading over to contacts. This will reduce the risk of prevalence|

| | |of the pandemic condition and it will create relief for all sectors mainly |

| | |economical so that many developing countries will surpass this unexpected |

| | |situation. |

|14. |Does your proposed solution contribute to combatting climate |No. It is related to COVID-19 |

| |change or promoting a greener planet? If so, please explain. | |

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|15. |How is your proposal relevant to the development challenges of|India is one of the most promising developing country in global. Because of this |

| |India? |pandemic situation all sectors are affected much and the activities related are |

| |1000 character limit |standstill. The production turnovers of industries of all sectors are affected and|

| | |badly in dire need of completion of the existing orders and requirement of tough |

| | |convincing issues for future orders. In this scenario, India needs to establish |

| | |with the external world that it can able to overcome this pandemic situation with |

| | |their technical stuff. So by containing and reducing the probability of spreading |

| | |of this kind of disease at the earliest will re-build the healthy society and thus|

| | |will improve the economic conditions of the country and peaceful life to the |

| | |citizens. |

|16. |What consideration have you made of gender in developing your |The proposed research doesn’t consider gender. |

| |concept? Could your project address gender inequality or | |

| |other kinds of inequality? | |

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| |Notes: |

| |Please be kindly reminded of the primary criteria: relevance to the environmental and/or C19 agenda. See boxes 13 and 14. |

| |Except box 5, all boxes require mandatory response. |

| |In the interests of fairness, proposals that exceed the character limits will not be considered. |

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